Posted: 02.21.2011

An Appleton-area man is dead after his
vehicle and two others plunged through the ice into Lake Winnebago.

The Calumet County Sheriff's Department says emergency crews
were called to the north end of the lake just before 8 a.m.
Saturday to a call of a vehicle falling through the ice. Sheriff
Mark Ott tells the Post-Crescent in Appleton that three vehicles in
all ended up in the lake.

The victim is a 59-year-old man whose vehicle was submerged in
about 16 feet of water. His name has not been released.

Ott says law enforcement cannot force people to stay off frozen
lakes but he says it's increasingly dangerous to go on them after
recent warm temperatures.

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